On Sep 8, 2010, at 04:53, Giulio Troccoli wrote: >> Also the /Users folder perms is: >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 18 Aug 10:03 Users > > Now, there's your answer. The user that runs theweb server, _www, has > permission to access /Users only becuase of the others permissions ______r-x. > > You could change the ownership of /Users to _www but I guess the /Users > contains also the home directories of your users so this woldn't be > acceptable. > > Why don't you create a directory directly under / owned by _www and access by > _www only, for example > > mkdir /repos > chown _www /repos > chmod 700 /repos > cp -R /Users/Svn /repos > > Check that the permission of /repos/Svn are still correct and then amend your > web server configuration file so that the repository points to /repos/Svn and > not /Users/Svn
Or consider using the existing web server hierarchy Apple already established. There's already /Library/WebServer/Documents (the document root) and /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables (the cgi-bin); consider storing your repositories in /Library/WebServer/Subversion (there are some Google hits for this so someone else thought of this before).
